POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The Daily WTF [again] : Re: The Daily WTF [again] Server Time
21 Jul 2025 21:32:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:32:21
Message: <47b20255$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   Much of IE's "performance" is deceiving.

Yes. But...

>   For example, IE seems to take much less memory than other browsers
> because many of its components are system components already loaded
> into memory, and they are not listed under IE in the task manager.
> This means that IE is taking quite a lot of memory, but you won't see
> how much using task manager.

...plain Win+IE opened can still stay on pretty low memory usage. Try
plain Seamonkey (FF maybe too, haven't used for some time), reduce it
from Win+IE and notice that if IE did take same amount of memory, Win
(without IE) would get on with incredibly low memory.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
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